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November 23, 2014

UEFA has assigned the following eight referee teams for next
Tuesday's Champions League Matchday 5 ties. Among others, Czech Pavel Královec will handle the game tie between Manchester City and Bayern München, while Slovenian Matej Jug will be observed by committee's member Jozef Marko in Paris Saint Germain - Ajax.

Very disappointing for CSKA to have Brych as a referee after his scandalous officiating of Belgium-Russia at the WC'14. His recent performance is far from the best, so strange decision to appoint him for the key game at this group.

I think Kassai can be also a candidate for this match. His performance was great in Madrid and probably Collina want to see him....and if he will show a good performance probably he is candidate also for Berlin or at least for the semi-finals. UEFA needs the experienced and good referees and they need Kassai, Mazic, Skomina again as strong referees.

Eriksson deserves Champions League final for his recent seasons at top level with only a few mistakes including a overall good World Cup. Would be a pity to see him retired without this achievement. So I agree with your opinions. This could be the right time for him. All the best.

I must say that your nomination funny.:))) Marciniak, Vad, Orsato, Sidiropoulos? Aydinus??? :) This is nonsense. Aytekin for the Basel vs. Real? :D Basel is fighting for the passage that must be experienced referees team from the Elite category.

I am quite sure spanish referees will referee in group C (Velasco Carballo and Mateu Lahoz) or group D (Undiano Mallenco and Fernández Borbalán). If each one has got three matches in the group stage, it is not possible to leave all of them for MD6.

I agree, even though I think that the only YC against Höger was (even though technically correct) evitable. Given Eriksson's personality I think he could have managed that with a strong warning. But of course no mistake.

89': Clattenburg and Oliver missed a deliberate handball, a shot on goal was saved by arm. Movement of the arm toward the ball. Oliver was surrounded by home-team players, he had a very good view on the scene but I will rewatch carefully...

This is a good question.In the case of this missed penalty, Oliver has surely the first responsibility, as it happened right under his eyes. But one must not forget that AAR are there to help the referee, not the replace (in the literal meaning) him, so the referee has still to pay a certain attention when the play is in the penalty areas and near the AARs. I think that Clattenburg had a good viewing angle and he was not so far away.So crucial mistake for both officials here... at least in my opinion...

Just wondering if the foul in 42' by Berezutsky in CSKA-Roma which led to the first goal shouldn't have been a penalty. The offender was standing inside the penalty area and committed the foul with an outstretched leg. Yes, the contact was outside - what is your opinion? I have heard various interpretations of similar situations.

Concerning Kralovec: I was in the stadium, thus I am not able to evaluate his decisions. But I had the feeling that his approach was more passive. There were several situations in that he detected a foul, whistled but didn´t move towards the scene. In consequence, he often had a some distance to the players. I´d like him having more presence to the Players in some situations.

Hi Phil,you can already read my observer report online. I didn't notice it that much as you, in my opinion he had a very good communication with the players. He was an unobstrutive ref and an that was good in this game. I liked his performance (or generally his style of refereeing) very much. Hope you had a similar impression. Look forward to your feedback. Gitzlo/Austria